Ellie: Just because Zhan is alright with adultery doesn’t mean–anyway, we’re here to discuss what will happen when you take over the family.

Lutetium: Oh, I know that already. I get a new house and pop out some kids. Easy peasy.

Ellie: Well… not exactly.

Ellie: … would you like to tell her?

Carlos: Because I was the one to introduce the subject to you?

Ellie: No, because I finished my drink and I need another one.

Carlos: I was going over the notes that Ellie took during the ISBI, and we mostly found that sims left to their own devices will pee themselves a lot. And pee is not scientifically interesting.

Carlos: But this new type of legacy will prove to be very interesting, scientifically. So interesting, in fact, that scientists from all over the world will be fighting to get tickets to see. Metaphorically, of course, because we’ll be publishing our findings online.

Lutetium: Hold on… you’re going to take my personal life and put it on the Internet? I know the Watcher does that, but… there’s a huge difference between the Watcher and some science guy I don’t know.

Carlos: Don’t worry. You still get the new house.

Lutetium: That’s not my problem. My problem is you’re going to be taking pictures of me whenever you want and putting them online for strangers. Which is exactly what the Watcher does, but it’s like okay when they do it because I know them? Sort of? … you know I’m actually less okay with it now that I’m saying it out loud, but my point still stands.

Carlos: We’ll only be documenting the scientifically interesting bits. So nothing with pee.

Lutetium: That doesn’t really make me feel better.

Lutetium: How is a Differences in the Family Tree thing scientifically interesting, anyway? I’ll be planting apples or something. Lots of people plant apples. It’s not new.

Carlos: It would take too much time to explain what is so scientifically interesting. And I doubt you would understand it if you weren’t a scientist.

Lutetium: … that just means you don’t have an answer. : /

Lutetium: Anyway, we have a problem. A big part of the first generation in a DITFT is that you can’t have kids until you’re married. And upon turning eighteen, I gained a trait that makes me not want to be married.

Carlos: … come with me.

Lutetium: … this wasn’t here when we came it.

Carlos: It was transported through science while we were in the other room.

Carlos: If you step into this device, we can change your traits.

Lutetium: … isn’t that against the rules? Don’t I need to spend happiness points or something to change traits?

Carlos: You’re not technically part of any legacy right now, so anything goes.

Lutetium: That’s all good but… I don’t really want to change myself. Like… if I change then I’ll want to get married, and my traits are telling me that I shouldn’t want to get married…

Carlos: It’ll be fine once you get inside.

Lutetium: … is it really ethical to change my very personality if I’m not on board with it?

So I honestly didn’t think this chapter was going to be up in the time that I wanted it to be. I was playing another save file and had put in some CC that I wanted for that household, and then the game just. Broke. First the launcher wouldn’t open. Then it would, but pressing play would make my screen go black and the computer would do a hard shut-down. Then it was just that the screen went black and stayed that way for ages.

Removing the new CC that I’d put in didn’t fix it. I’d spent a lot of the night last night trying to make the thing open with no luck.

Then it started working today after I took out all the mods, and then putting them back in didn’t break it again. I’m not going to question it.

Lutetium had two times as many votes as either of her sisters when I checked the poll, so she’s officially our founder of the DITFT when that happens.

How do you feel about gardening for a living even though none of your traits would make you want to garden?

Lutetium: Are you sure you don’t want to do the fishing generation?

Do not speak to me or my children ever again. I’m done with fishing forever.

Terbium somehow learned that Bella is single and I have no idea how that happened.

Then I remembered that we hadn’t gotten a proper picture of Thulium.

Cutie.

Take a long look because she leaves immediately after this.

I didn’t kick her out, I just got an opportunity for the adults to go on vacation.

I figured accepting it would mean I didn’t have to go to graduation.

And then I’d get to see what the teens would do with a day off and no one to tell them what to do.

This, apparently.

Lutetium: Hey, sis. I heard you were using the radio. Isn’t music great?

Ytterbium: I’m… going to go take a bath before prom starts.

For some reason they’re not very close.

Then prom happened!

Ytterbium picks on a nerd like she’s not aware of what our entire legacy is based on.

… and then she just fights her way through everyone there.

Ytterbium got rejected all night, but Lutetium apparently has a thing for Sam Sekemoto. Since Krypton brought his high school sweetheart over to the ISBI so many generations back, I make a note to grab Sam for Lu.

The next morning, the bus comes as Ytterbium is making waffles. I spend the whole day watching the oven waiting for it to burst into flames.

Ytterbium: … I think I’ve done all my homework for the day, but I feel like I’m forgetting something.

Wonder what that could be.

Old gnome is old.

… also, when did we get this?

Lutetium skills in the pool.

Ytterbium finally remembers her waffles almost 24 hours after putting them in the oven.

… I was hoping they would be burnt so I can make some sort of snide remark. But they’re nice quality and I’m angry about it.

Ytterbium: My slow-roasted waffles are finally done. : )

The adults come back and Europium swoons over Riley.

Europium: What a fine piece of plush ass.

I’m disturbed.

Mick: I know I just spent two days spending time on a tropical island with my lovely wife, but I really missed videogames while we were there.

Mick wasn’t the only one.

Europium: You two spend your whole vacation drinking fruity drinks and ignoring everyone else, and then you come home and play this garbage? What happened to quality family time?

Thulium: The only thing that’s garbage is that Mick is playing on a PC when console is clearly superior.

While the twins were out at school, I got things ready for a birthday party!

Mick: My little girls are going to be all grown up. ;_;

Erbium: Ooh, someone made slow-roasted waffles!

You better watch it, Sam. : /

Lutetium: Hey, everyone! I’m gonna blow out my candles!

Thulium: … I need a drink.

We invited guests over, but they were still milling around like butts.

Poolparazzi: This is like a pool… but small and warm… hmmmm…

Iliana: I brought sushi. : I

This isn’t the best time for that.

By the time Ytterbium got to her cake, everyone was upstairs, but… not in the mood for birthday celebrations.

Terbium: I’m all birthday-ed out.

Lutetium: I’m tired.

Darlene: Um, can you move? I’m gonna sit there. : /

Such is the life of a twin.

Ytterbium got the natural cook trait. Which won’t really matter because she’s not going to be in our new household.

Ytterbium: *dumps cake on ground* What are you talking about? I’m Lu’s twin so I should be the one to carry her torch.

… what are you talking about?

Ytterbium: Lu was decapitated by some blinds. She’s dead.

In all seriousness, Lutetium’s final trait is commitment-issues… which should be fun. : /

I tried to give her a more mature and nature-y look. And also something that wouldn’t give us an upskirt every time she plants a seed.

So… we did it! I don’t know how to feel about this right now but I am excited for new beginnings and all that. Expect a little interlogue sometime soon, and… see you in 2017! Or later if you’re reading this in the future, I guess.

I’ll be honest I was kind of hoping when I opened the game to have some uneventful days that I could kind of speed through so I could get things wrapped up this chapter. I’m excited for a new legacy chapter and new challenge and new generation and controlling the whole house again.

But when have things ever been uneventful here.

Terbium: Thules, did you break the laptop while randomly swinging a pillow through the house?

Thulium: No! And it’s not random, I’m trying to get Riley to leave the house. : /

Saturday was our outing, so everyone went to a movie.

They saw the thing about sharks on land and everyone loved it but Erbium.

Also Holly Alto and Tori Kimura are apparently dating.

Thulium: My favorite part of the movie was escaping the infinite void of the theater.

Ytterbium went out in the dumpsters after the movie. So I guess the cleancore thing is over now.

Ytterbium: The new aesthetic is upcycling.

And Lutetium went to the back of the theater to eat a nice, healthy asphalt mushroom.

My favorite part is that she holds it like a friggin’ cigarette.

Then a bunch of them went home and I sent the people who hadn’t left the group to the pool.

Erbium: Dammit, Lu. Your ‘haunted shitstain’ story is not scary, no matter how many times you tell it.

June: Oh dear. Now I can’t confess to Terbium about my affair with her husband. : I

I honestly was expecting Europium would go first.

And wasn’t really expecting anyone to die between now and the end of the ISBI. o_o

Death: June Mende– shit I broke my scythe.

June: *laughs*

Death: Please this is serious.

June: Please, Death! I can’t die while the TV is still broken!

Death: That is… by far the worst excuse I’ve ever heard. Get in the damn urn.

Europium: Shit, I just sensed that my wife died across town. ;_;

Terbium: Really? I don’t feel anything.

Darlene: Wow, this is awkward. ._.

Europium: To reunite with my wife, I’ll set fire to our house and bring this whole family down in a blaze of glory…

Terbium: Like hell you are.

Europium: … should not have said that out loud.

Europium was so upset that he stayed at the pool while most everyone else went home, so I went back and checked on him later.

Death: Darlene Bunch… your life is unfortunate and makes me lol. You get to live.

Darlene: … why can’t I rest. ;_;

Poolparazzi: Hm… this is good… but not as good as the Mendeleev pool.

Europium is apparently trying to reunite with his wife.

Terbium: First of all, Milton, you’re poolparazzi. The only reason I haven’t drowned you is because it’d be too much effort to get you into the house, into the pool, and then put a fence around said pool with you in it. Second of all, you wrote a fashion piece about my husband while a girl was dying and being resurrected by Death himself right next to you. You’re a shit reporter. So no, I won’t date you.

These are the faces that Thulium makes when she sees Riley.

… it’s not even that they have a low relationship. But she does not like Riley.

Lutetium’s been playing on the piano and she’s actually getting pretty skilled.

Europium: We have some great kids in this family.

Mick: Yeah…

Terbium: I’m gonna pour ladybugs down the back of her shirt when she’s done.

Terbium… you’re in a bikini… where are you keeping the ladybugs…

I took her to the gym to save Lutetium. And also because Terbium’s agent wanted her to work out or something.

Agnes: *immediately pulls Terbium off of the treadmill for an autograph*

Judy: *swoops in to steal treadmill*

What kind of fairy conspiracy.

Judy couldn’t get changed into athletic clothes fast enough, though, so we stole the treadmill right back.

Judy: Well, it was worth a shot.

While waiting for the girls to show up for school I got distracted by the person (?) in that corner over there.

And then checked back to see that all but one of the teens had decided to skip school.

…and Lutetium had decided to run to the field trip at the theater rather than taking the bus.

Wait… but.

She’s not there?

… no you didn’t???

Thulium: Quick, Ytterbium! We can’t miss our field trip!

It’s already over????

After (probably) finding no one at the theater, they returned home for Thulium’s birthday.

Thulium: I’m an adult now! Yay!

Ytterbium: … you do realize they scheduled prom to be tomorrow, right? So you can’t go?

Thulium: … well shit.

Thulium’s final trait is supernatural skeptic.

Thulium: So shut the fuck up, Riley. I don’t believe in you anymore.

Riley’s birthday borked the game so I won’t have pictures of Thulium’s makeover until next chapter. Which will also include prom, and possibly the end of an era??

Ytterbium: Ten now. Second, you kinda just barged in on me in the bathroom when I was going to take a shower and then take some pictures for my cleancore blog.

Terbium: Oh, so you like ART? That makes you a dummy poo-poo head!

I friggin’ hate that this interaction is autonomous.

So I sent Terbium to play piano and get out of everyone’s hair.

For some reason people gathered to listen to her horrible not-even-level-one playing.

Ytterbium: Oh, no. I just came to let mom know that I broke the shower while I was taking pictures for my blog. It was… an intense photo shoot.

Cleancore.

Erbium continues to try and kill everyone. The downstairs fridge now induces route fails for no good reason.

And someone found the bar.

Europium: I feel like… I’m being true to my heritage.

And then he drank another, like a true Mendeleev.

Terbium: I’m a bit confused about why we’re not best friends yet. I mean, I’m best friends with both of your sisters. What am I supposed to do.

Lutetium: I’m a bit confused about why you walk around the house like that. And why we let Erbium stay when they are trying to kill us all.

Lutetium: Maybe we can go to the movies or something? Have a family outing where the paparazzi won’t show up. That’d be nice.

Also apparently hard to make happen because the game is a butt.

Lutetium: Well, bus is here. Time to clean all the dishes on the lot.

Quit stalling and get on the bus.

Lutetium: … stalling? I just want our dishes to be clean.

Cleancore.

I don’t know why she was stalling, because they went on a field trip like immediately.

Ytterbium: Shit, they don’t feed us on field trips. : I

Once again, Thulium gets left out.

It’s probably her own fault though.

Since Thulium’s dream was to start a legacy with her imaginary friend, Riley, I decided to let Riley out.

Riley: So I was thinking firecracker shrimp at the wedding?

Thulium: … you’re like elementary school age and this is really awkward.

Also awkward is Lutetium’s athletic outfit because I never pay attention to that when doing clothes.

Enjoy this aesthetically pleasing shot of Ytterbium with alcohol she can’t legally drink. It will probably go up on at least one of her blogs.

Ytterbium: And I’m still totally gonna drink this alcohol.

Naturally.

Riley: Thuuuuuuliummmmm! I’m older now!

Moon: *is big*

I found Terbium and Mick dancing.

Terbium was more focused on what book she wanted to read next.

And then birthday but Mick looks the same so whatever.

Europium is also not a good pianist.

Europium: I feel some unspeakable presence in this room.

Riley: *heavy breathing*

Oh wait I did take a picture.

Terbium: I blow in your armpit for good luck!

And then…

Mick: June, I love… the view from this room.

Europium: *stare*

Terbium: *staaare*

However, they both failed their insight checks so everything’s status quo.

The next day, Ytterbium skipped school and… no one seemed to care.

She wasn’t scolded or anything.

Also this kid is definitely dead. Maybe locked away in that mine shaft on the edge of the map.

Terbium: … fuck. I used ‘invite everyone inside’ and now the poolparazzi are going to contaminate our water.

Random dude on the phone: Um… so did you want to go on that date?

Terbium: Please take me away from this hellscape.

I mostly agreed because I wanted to see who Scotty was.

Terbium: I mean… a little bland, but not bad.

Terbium: …and we’re done here.

Riley: Thuliummmmm. We need to discuss how many babies we’re gonna have!

Thulium: I never thought I’d say this but… LEAVE ME ALONE.

This was found in the family inventory and I’m just pretending it never existed. Hopefully it won’t destroy everything.

And then the kids were just… invited over to other people’s houses like constantly for a bit.

Thulium goes to sleep in Bella’s bed and then… again, no one cares. I thought for sure there would be a message about guests behaving inappropriately.

I think it has to do with the inappropriate trait that she can sleep in strangers beds?

The police certainly care.

Thulium: I’m just strolling casually home…

Cop: No you are not.

Thulium: If I stand in the corner, maybe they’ll ignore me like they did for the first twelve years of my life.

Terbium: Thulium Mendeleev! You should know not to stay out this late! You know that if we open the gates after midnight, the poolparazzi will try to barge in. They got in once and now they’re like animals that tasted blood and can’t get enough. But instead of blood it’s chlorinated water.

Ytterbium: … if I stand here in the corner they’ll ignore me.

Mick: Ytterbium, you know that the poolparazzi come out this late at night. You could have been seriously injured.

Terbium: It’s okay, I’m going to try diplomacy.

Mick: … and now your mother is going out to talk to their leader. If he kills and eats her it’s your fault.

Terbium: Seriously. What the fuck.

Poolparazzi: Legend says that when the stars are right, the gates shall open and deliver us unto a promised land…

Terbium: Get the hell out of here or I will let you into our pool, and you will not be coming out. Unless you’re like, a ghost.

…faithful. Yeah. Okay.

Terbium: … seriously?

Erbium: Could you not watch TV when I’m sleeping?

Terbium: There are plenty of places to sleep where you can’t hear the TV, so could you not sleep in front of the fridge?

Erbium: If you want me to sleep somewhere else, then tell me who stole my clothes when I was in the hot tub.

My goal is to be on the new generation for the new year, so let’s get cracking!

Thulium: I saw you and grandma.

Mick: … are you going to tell your mother? : I

Thulium: This is an ISBI, so I don’t think I can. : /

Erbium is still trying to kill everyone by sleeping in front of the fridge.

So I threw a mini fridge downstairs because everyone was miserable.

I remembered the family outing! Yay!

Dude guy: OMIGOD LUTETIUM MENDELEEV.

Lutetium: Y’know, this is why we try not to go out to public places.

Terbium: No, I’m not going to catch fish for you. I’m with my family… what do you mean ‘since when do you put your family before fishing.’ I’ve always been an excellent mom.

Ytterbium: When she gets off the phone she’s gonna scare me I just know it. O_O

Erbium’s a party pooper.

Or maybe he’s going to go booby trap the fridge.

Terbium went to talk to her mom, but they talked about the new house and stuff rather than, you know, drama.

A DITPT will be fun because I’ll be able to artificially inject drama for my own amusement.

This? This is not drama.

Terbium: I talked to your gramma like you told me. Was I supposed to get something from that?

Thulium: Forget it, mom. You can be oblivious if you want.

Terbium: Hey, let’s… turn that frown upside down…

Thulium: Oh god…

Terbium: … and finish learning how to drive?

Thulium: … sure?

I forgot that the game would try to make everyone else follow Terbium, and so the Mendeleevs were scattered to the winds.

Erbium: And this is why you leave the family outings early.

Lutetium: And because paparazzi.

Europium: Well, I can’t follow the Motive Mobile even with Thulium’s shitty driving, so I’ll stream some videos in the middle of the street.

You’re not even holding the phone right.

Thulium: D: Mom, I think I just hit a woman flying on a broom?

Terbium: Don’t worry. There were no witnesses and blood just slicks right off the Motive Mobile’s glossy finish. She has no evidence.

Thulium learned to drive and then they were eaten by a small star.

Or a paparazzi taking a flash photo two inches from their faces.

And where was Mick the whole time?

I can’t make any drama happen, but these aren’t doing anything to hide it.

We interrupt this adultery for some birthdays.

Ytterbium: Yay!

Lutetium, if you stay a kid I swear…

Cute! She got. A trait. If you want to know her traits you can just scroll down.

These kids are too gorgeous.

I went back for a quick checkup of the other family members and…

I’m just going to pretend I don’t see these two because there’s not really anything I can do about it.

Europium: I thought an apple a day was supposed to keep the doctor away.

Time for an heir poll!

This poll will be deciding who will be the ‘founder’ of the next leg of our legacy, which should finish up the periodic table, which is… honestly something I never actually thought I would accomplish.

Thulium is an inappropriate bookwoorm who is both excitable and friendly… although you really wouldn’t know it. Since she’s been kind of… ignored… during her childhood. She dreams to start her own legacy with her Imaginary Friend whose name is probably something inane.

Lutetium is a disciplined athlete and a virtuoso. She’s recently developed an uncontrollable urge to steal shit. Almost attained immortality by simply refusing to stop wearing diapers.

Ytterbium is an excitable athlete with good luck on her side, although she can find it hard to get a good night’s sleep. She has kickass hair as long as she’s not standing in front of a window. Runs like five aesthetic blogs.

Abraham: Your mom signed a thing for me so now I know we’re meant to be together. ;_;

Ytterbium: … I’m opening the gate to go inside, and if you follow me I will pepper spray you.

Apparently the driveway is the hot place to be right now.

And then everyone was asleep and I didn’t know what to do.

We have this statue tho that’s cool.

Apparently morning bikini women is just a fact of life here.

Abraham: Yeah, I spent all night here. Didn’t sleep a wink.

Pillar: You left the walls down. : )

WELL FUCK U TOO BUDDY

Thulium: I’m even scorned by my younger sisters now. Great. ;_;

Ytterbium: You can… um… come sit closer to the front, you know.

Thulium: Forced to sit back here, alone. ;_;

Ytterbium: We’d really prefer it if you sat next to us so we could talk and it’d be less awkward. : I

Thulium: They hate me. ;_;

Bikini Paparazzi: Since we can’t get to the pool inside, I made my own! 8D

Abraham: Ooh, maybe we could catch fish in it, too!

Bikini: :O If we could catch fish, we could have food to sustain ourselves! AND NEVER NEED TO LEAVE!!!

Papergirl: … I’m just gonna put this here… and walk away.

Terbium: Now that my LTW is done, what better way to connect with my daughters than to work at their school? 😀 They’ll love it!

I don’t think–

Terbium: THEY’LL LOVE IT! 8D

After her first day, Terbium went over to the Goth house to suck up to her boss, Cornelia.

… this will not be helping Terbium’s relationship with her boss.

Europium: So… are you Thulium’s boyfriend?

Michael: I’ve honestly never spoken to her in my life.

Europium: … well then. Um. Do you like this show?

Michael: … it’s alright.

Terbium: So, what do you think about burgers, kid? That’s what kids like, right? Burgers? Ones that come with cheap toys or something? Should I get you fast food or something? Is that how parenting works?

Ytterbium: Mom I am very hungry. Please let me get breakfast.

Ytterbium’s hair: *is eaten by a window*

Thulium had a field trip.

Thulium: … sigh.

Lisa: … I invited you to sit with me and you completely ignored me.

Thulium: SIGHHH.

Thulium: Siiii… -gn me the fuck up that is some GOOD shit!

Maybe now she’ll have a nicer outlook on life.

Thulium: AAAH IM STARVING BECAUSE THEY DON’T FEED US AT THESE THINGS AND A TAXI REAR-ENDED OUR RIDE HOME.

Or not.

She made it back home okay and I used my free command to have her call VJ.

Terbium: Thulium–

Thulium: Mom shut up I’m calling the hottest guy in–HI VJ! 😀

Terbium: Thulium–

Thulium: Mom shut up I’m doing homework.

Terbium: … Thulium, you are grounded from homework until you come talk to me.

Thulium: Mom what the fuck.

Terbium: … wanna learn how to drive in the Motive Mobile?

Thulium: … okay that is ten times cooler than doing homework.

Thulium: Can I honk my horn at the losers doing homework in front of the diner?

Terbium: I would be disappointed if you DIDN’T do that.

*HONK HONK*

Terbium: … Now turn around so we can drive past and do it again. 8D

Sandi: … they’ve been circling the block for an hour now wtf.

River: Just try to ignore them. : /

*HONK HONK*

Terbium then abandoned Thulium in front of a random house so she could drive the MM to work.

Thulium: … shit I should probably do that homework now. : I

Someone sent a hot tub through the mail… somehow… and June immediately broke it in.

Erbium followed.

June: What’s the world coming to that the youth wants to sit around buck naked? This generation is so entitled.

June you did it first.

June: It’s all these videogames and Pokémon Suns and Moons what’s deteriorating morality! I come out and see my child sitting naked in a hot tub? Damn millennials have no sense of decency!

Ytterbium: Um… okay gramma.

Terbium: RAWR!

Ytterbium: WHAT THE SHIT MOM

Terbium: … wanna do family bonding?

They played some tag. : P

Terbium: I’m too frickin’ old for this.

Ytterbium: I didn’t hear any apologies when you almost made my heart give out! Keep running!

Erbium finally got out of the hot tub.

Someone stole their clothes. : 3

… and it wasn’t me.

We got a magic gnome and now that I think about it, I can’t remember having any in this ISBI. I know we had a bunch in the legacy before but I dunno where this one came from.

I named it and promptly forgot its name.

I hope this pose doesn’t mean a meteor’s going to come.

I’ve had a couple games where no one was looking at the stars or anything and then WHAM a meteor! Once when everyone in the house was sleeping!

Speaking of sleeping, WHY DO THE BUNKBEDS DO THIS?

They have ladders on BOTH sides for a reason!

I thought our fridge was broken but apparently it was just Erbium trying to passive-aggressively murder everyone in the house.

Last time, we did a lot of fishing and then Lutetium refused to age up. So we had to move to try to fix that.

Most importantly, almost all of our perfect fish survived the move! We somehow lost the rainbow trout somewhere, but it shouldn’t be too hard to pick up another one.

And here’s our new house, which is less important, since we’re probably only staying here until whichever kid becomes a young adult. But it’s a nice house and I like it, even if the layout’s a little weird. The bedrooms are on the ground floor and the living areas are on the top, which I’m not used to.

Well, the first thing I did was change the counters because I had a headache while I was playing and ‘modern’ means ‘everything is shiny and white and painful’. But birthdays came closely in second.

Lutetium, if you do not become a child this instant I will, without hyperbole, be forced to murder you. Sorry.

Llama: Wow, the old lady living here is hot.

NOW IS NOT THE TIME LLAMA MAN.

I have never been happier to see a sim grow up with crossed eyes and an ugly wardrobe.

I present Lutetium all grown up. Her child trait is kleptomaniac.

Lutetium: You can tell because I just stole your hearts.

Ytterbium grew up afterwards. It was kind of anticlimactic because she never had an issue with the birthday part. But she rocked this hairstyle when I put it on her in CAS.

It is the absolute WORST for clipping in front of glass, and this house is 90% windows, and I have no regrets.

Ytterbium’s new trait is light sleeper.

Ytterbium: Which is okay because there aren’t any screaming toddlers in the house now.

Because Terbium and Mick know literally no one in town, except maybe the llama, I went ahead and gave them a private wedding while Ytterbium convulsed with her imaginary friend in the corner.

I didn’t take a video but the way she moves when she sings to that thing is horrifying and I think she is possessed.

Terbium: Wanna just get married now?

Mick: Terbium, we haven’t talked in… weeks… maybe we should wait?

Terbium: We’ve been engaged for like five years or something. How much longer do you want to wait.

Mick: Shouldn’t we settle into the new house…

Terbium: Mick we have a pool in the backyard and I know how to kill people with it.

Mick: … let’s get married now.

Romance.

If you couldn’t tell from any of the previous pictures, we’re back in Sunset Valley. In the same lot where Ellie moved in… was it six years ago now? I thought it would be nice to kind of get back to where we started.

But with a swanky house instead of a tent, of course.

Also we have a pond across from the house now and it’s really convenient and I love it.

Rainbow trout! One fish to go!

Ytterbium found the pool and…

Shoot! I knew I forgot something! We left all the graves back at the old house.

… I’m not too upset, though. We have, like, half a generation left before we get a new start and trying to get our first graves transferred over to to the ISBI file was awful and horrible. So those ghosts weren’t going to be sticking around with the family for much longer anyway.

Lutetium: I IMMEDIATELY REGRET THIS DECISION.

I don’t want our last fish to be a minnow or something shitty like that, so we’re going for either a death fish or a shark. It might make things a bit harder but we have a while before I have to give up controlling Terbium.

One, we have a computer in the house and I don’t think we had one in the last one.

Two, Erbium ‘s arms are very toned and nice.

And Thulium is… here. In a bathroom.

Thulium: This is the new legacy house. Riley and me are seceding and starting our own legacy. A legacy where people HAVE to pay attention to me.

Thulium: Isn’t that right, Riley? We’re gonna get married and have ALL the babies.

Yes. Because they weren’t empty before. Or, maybe, they were never NOT empty because of time shenanigans.

We DID end up keeping more fish than I thought we had, so that’s cool.

And then Terbium immediately caught another perfect fish. A salmon. I’m not sure if that was one of the ones we had before the earlier crash.

Three fish to go.

I’m almost happy the game crashed. Look. The grandparents are acknowledging the toddlers now instead of making out. It’s like we were in the bad timeline, a timeline where everyone was miserable all the time and tired all the time, and the bad time imploded on itself. Saving us in the process.

This is the good timeline.

Lutetium: HUNGRY

Europium: What could this child want?

Lutetium: FOOD

Europium: If only there were some way to know…

Letetium: FEED ME

… I may have spoke too soon about this good timeline thing.

Amazing.

I remember very clearly that the family moved here while Terbium was a young adult, because our reason for moving was her fishing skill freezing.

So I think we can all agree it is too damn early for this town to be doing this.

Then I went to go make a little pond to stock with fish, thinking ‘I wonder if I should save, just in case, after I make the pond.’

Guess what happened.

So absolutely none of the above happened. But Terbium got a perfect swordfish this time around.

And I saved.

I saved. After. Everything.

So all this happened from now on. For real. Official.

Three fish to go.

I don’t know why I took this? Possibly to prove that this pond is the for reals pond that we’re using.

I put imperfect fish in and they somehow reproduce and have perfect babies within the day?

Or maybe the pond perfects the imperfect fish somehow.

I wanted a cute picture of Thulium, because she exists, but she currently exists in a horrible place in regards to getting a good picture.

Thulium: JUST LEAVE ME ALONE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. ;_;

… do you need to talk?

Thulium: I only want to talk to Riley. ;_; Riley is my only friend.

We got that salmon again!

*save*

Two fish to go!

Lutetium: AHHHHHHH THESE STAIRS ARE TERRIFYING

Ytterbium: ~Follow for more soft route fail aesthetic~

Compelling toddlers to go to a room with actual empty space isn’t cheating.

They were by the stairs. Stairs are dangerous.

Terbium: … why is it my job to feed them?

Because I can’t tell anyone else to do it?

Terbium: Yeah, but… I really gotta pee. o__o

Two minutes to spare!

NO.

NO.

I AM NOT COUNTING THAT.

She made it to the toilet. You all saw.

Terbium: Babies fed, child given a responsible 1 AM bedtime on a school night… I’m a good mom.

I was very excited to see we got a death fish. Because it’s the first one I caught, ever, I’m pretty sure. And all the guides I remember reading made it seem like ‘YOU MUST HAVE AN ANGELFISH IT MUST BE SPECTACULAR TO EVEN THINK ABOUT GETTING A DEATH FISH’

… why is fish capitalized.

Terbium accidentally found a secret vampire bar while looking for a bathroom.

Terbium: I guess this is why we got a notification that the graveyard was ‘popping’?

Mick: Kid, have you seen your mother? This fish thing is getting out of hand. *jams face into clock*

Thulium: … I’m really glad I’m not related to you.

OH SHOOT THEYRE STILL NOT MARRIED.

Lutetium: You’ll protect me from the mean ol’ stairs, right? Usually we are only saved from the stairs if Mommy’s around, but I ain’t seen her in DAYYYS.

Terbium: Well, I’m not in maternity clothes and the world hasn’t imploded.

Phew.

Erbium also grew up.

Erbium: I no longer believe in ghosts or anything like that.

He’s a supernatural skeptic which is just. My least favorite trait. ERBIUM YOU ARE DESCENDED FROM THE GRIM REAPER AND YOUR HOUSE IS REGULARLY HAUNTED BY GHOSTS???

Ytterbium: WAHHHHHHH

She was swarmed by adults a moment ago, and as soon as I put her somewhere that they can REACH her they vanish.

I see how it is. We all wanna LOOK like we’re useful but as soon as something needs to be done…

… I went to take a picture of Thulium because she’d got off from school but…

I’m a little scared right now?

That’s better. I guess.

Thulium: … can’t we use the Motive Mobile so we’re NOT all miserable at the graduation thing?

Europium: Don’t be silly, sweetie.

Thulium: But my butt is sinking into the seat.

Europium: That’s because these are very nice seats. Very soft. Very plush.

Thulium: Granpa I think I’m clipping.

Most Likely to Burn Down Their Own House.

Noted.

Kick Erbium out ASAP.

:O IT WAS ERBIUMS FRICKIN BONFIRE THAT SET ONE OF THE OTHER KIDS ON FIRE THAT ONE TIME

…

*saves*

PERFECT VAMPIRE FISH HOT DAMN DANCE DANCE

One fish to go.

Since everything was going so well, why not try aging up the tots again?

Lutetium: I’LL NEVER GROW UP!!!

LU U ARE THE FAVORITE FOR HEIR RIGHT NOW U CANT BE HEIR AS A TODDLER

Lutetium: NEVERRRRRR

So. Um. Lutetium is broken, apparently. I’m going to try moving save files and all that jazz. Took precautions so we won’t lose our perfect fish. We will have them. We have twelve right now. If I keep repeating this mantra the game won’t screw me over while I try to fix Lu’s bug.

Basically plan A is to move to another town and see if that somehow fixes stuff. Might clear some caches to cover my bases. If that doesn’t work, Plan B is to… send Lutetium away… to a nice farm… and create her in CAS so we have a clone version that should age properly.

I once cloned an entire generation of kids this way so there’s precedent for this in this legacy.

So… hopefully I will get back to you with a house full of 12 perfect fish and a Lutetium that can become a child.

Now, June should either be A) getting into the van to go on a family outing or B) going to take care of the miserable infants upstairs.

But she is talking to the maid, which you may recognize as being neither of those things. This is just a general taste of how this entire outing goes.

Terbium behaves and goes fishing like I want her to, but she’s controlled by me and doesn’t really have a choice in the matter.

Europium immediately heads back home.

As does everyone else.

At least I didn’t forget this time. I tried. It’s not my fault.

Only Thulium stays, and she mostly just sits on the sidewalk, not even at the lot where she’s supposed to be, and does this.

Europium gets a pass because he came to save the babies, because they were in the red and June was STILL talking to the maid.

And then it was June’s birthday. She’s gonna be old now.

June: Hooray! Now I have an excuse to completely ignore all the stuff I should be doing.

No, no you don’t.

June: … what am I wearing.

I’ll fix it.

Also the babies grew up. I thought that they had more time to go and they’d just been born right before the end of my last session, but I guess they’d been alive longer than that.

Probably the fact that Terbium is still in maternity clothes threw me off.

Lutetium is in a Scene phase but, more importantly, has the most gorgeous big eyes. You can tell easier in create-a-sim but damn they are lovely.

She likes Darkwave and is a virtuoso in addition to being athletic.

Ytterbium is also athletic but also… a different trait. Her favorite color is white so now she runs a pale blog on Tumblr or something.

Ytterbium: Follow for pale naptime aesthetic.

Speaking of naptime aesthetic, Thules, you should be going to bed. It’s 2 AM on a school… morning.

Thulium: What are you gonna do about it? Tell my mom? She doesn’t care.

… fair point.

Something Terbium does care about: We now have 9 perfect fish.

Four to go.

… I’m glad this is, like, the last generation of the ISBI (I’m pretty sure?) because I’m not going to use this house again for toddlers.

Europium: Why are you coming home from school at 8 PM, young lady?

Thulium: Because I had a trash upbringing. Now let me eat and go to sleep, old man.

At least she actually went to sleep this time. : I

They’re both so done and I was also so done. No one’s really getting a good night’s sleep because the toddlers always need stuff, and half the time they either route fail on the stairs and scream until everyone is awake.

Haven’t taken too many pictures of Terbium because she spends her entire life fishing. Here I’ve made a little pond and stocked it with some of the fish we don’t have ‘perfect’ specimens of yet, so I can at least have a controllable sim in the area for when a toddler needs to be cared for.

June and Europium are both in the house constantly, but they’re basically useless.

Like right now.

Europium: You’re so sexy when you ignore starving toddlers to flirt with me. 😉

June: And YOU’re so sexy when you ignore starving toddlers to flirt with ME.

OMIGOD.

Cute picture of Ytterbium to cleanse the palate, as it were.

I’m not even mad. : I

FAIL.

Ytterbium: Look how cute I am! So cute so cute!

Smol bean.

I’d take more pictures of Lutetium being cute but she’s generally either stuck in a crib or…

Lutetium: Stairs, my old nemesis. We meet again.

Then she went off to explore the Downstairs.

June: DAMN FUCK ASS GAME SHIT!

Lutetium: … I’m gonna ‘member those words for when I can talk.

Swordfish, our tenth perfect fish.

We’re trying to catch a shark.

No luck.

No surprise that Thulium gets in trouble for bad grades when she has, like, never gone to school well-rested in her life.

Terbium: I caught a new fish AND it’s perfect right off the bat.

Eleven out of thirteen.

Terbium: … aren’t you gonna tell me ‘good job’ or something?

Terbium, now you’re just… fishing for compliments.

Terbium: You used me to set that joke up and I hate you for it.

Erbium’s birthday came and they grew up lovely and beautiful and I love them?

Terbium had a birthday but she didn’t change so whatever.

Terbium: … so… do you want a bedtime story?

Thulium: Oh, so NOW you wanna be nice? What made you decide to be my mom all of a sudden?

Terbium: … because it’s midnight and you need to go to bed, you little pill.

The birthdays also reminded me that it was two days until the toddlers grew up, so I thought I’d give them a cake. Then they’d be able to use the stairs.

Erbium: Alright, Lu. You’re gonna grow up and then we’re not going to spend every night route failing, alright?

Lutetium: lol that’s what you think.

And then Lutetium didn’t age up, no matter what I did, and then I broke the game trying to fix it. So. There’s that. I saved, at least, so I think I only need to redo the last couple birthdays and probably some fishing.